Mindhorn movie review: fame and fatuity
A wonderfully silly sendup of fandom and nostalgia… and an absolutely hilarious smackdown of actorly pomposity and delusions of celebrity grandeur.
Steve Coogan
my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
Philomena review: suffer the women
A cry-till-you-laugh-dramedy about seeking lost family and finding new purpose; Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are fantastic. Seriously, though: bring Kleenex.
Philomena trailer: give Judi Dench back her son!
Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Stephen Frears. So much goodness in yet another story about the inhuman awfulness of the Catholic Church. Hooray, I guess.
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (aka Alan Partridge: The Movie) review: tamed bear
Steve Coogan is still, hilariously, the same old awful, insecure jerk, but the media satire that has always revolved around the Alan Partridge character is somewhat diminished.
porn again? (The Look of Love review)
It’s a puzzlement. How did Michael Winterbottom make a film this tediously conservative?
What Maisie Knew (trailer)
Love the cast. I’ll watch Steve Coogan in anything.
The Look of Love (trailer)
Michael Winterbottom + Steve Coogan + Anna Friel = I cannot wait for this.
question of the day: What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?
There are lots of actors whom I’d love to see work with the Coens, to see how their unique and hugely entertaining talents could be amplified by the brothers’ idiosyncratic perspective — James Franco, Amy Adams, Timothy Olyphant, Colin Firth, Steve Coogan, Maria Bello, and on and on — none of them really need that boost the Coens could give them. Unlike my top five candidates for Coen-ification…
